Tag: ipodpatent

ZDNet’s Matt Loney believes that Apple should not be allowed to succeed in patenting the iPod user interface. “Few could deny that the iPod is a superb example of industrial engineering, or that the user interface is one of the coolest around, or, indeed, that the accompanying iTunes service may yet prove to be the one that makes the music industry recognise it can mix with the Internet after all,” writes Loney.

The US Patent & Trademark Office has published a patent application from Apple for a “graphical user interface and methods of use thereof in a multimedia player,” as noted by the MacObserver. The summary for the patent, which was originally filed on Oct.